Permanent Make Up Training Academy

12/11/2026

She used to work in ASDA 🛒.Now £500 days feel… NORMAL. 🤯👏🌟❤️

11/11/2026

She SURVIVED Breast Cancer 🙌🏥. Then She Was Told Wanting to Feel Beautiful Was Vain. 🤷‍♀️🤯

09/11/2026

👩‍🎓❤️ From the NHS and recruitment to building businesses they both LOVE… and creating a life on their own terms! 🥹👏

THIS is what makes my job as a trainer so incredibly rewarding! ❤️

Today I had the absolute pleasure of welcoming back my lovely student Emma, and introducing her to another wonderful student of mine, Julie, who I trained five years ago.

And watching these two women together was such a lovely reminder of why I started teaching Permanent Makeup all those years ago. 🥰

👩‍⚕️ Emma spent years building her incredible career as an NHS radiographer.

💼 Julie spent 30 years working in her own recruitment business.

Neither came from a beauty background. Neither had any previous experience in Permanent Makeup.

But both shared the same dream…

❤️ To wake up excited about their work.
❤️ To build a career helping other women look and feel confident.
❤️ To have more freedom, flexibility and precious time with the people they love.

And the wonderful thing? They’re both making that dream a reality! 🎉

Five years ago, Julie was just starting her journey. Today, she was back with us as one of our lovely treatment models, sharing her experiences with Emma and admiring her gorgeous portfolio.

It was so special watching them chat, swap stories and encourage each other, knowing just how far they’ve both come. ❤️

And Emma… OMG, what a lot she has to celebrate! 🥳

🏡 She’s created a beautiful Permanent Makeup studio in her garden.

💻 Her brand-new website is being built.

✨ She’s combining Permanent Makeup with non-surgical facelift treatments, giving her clients even more ways to feel wonderful.❤️💄💃🏻

👩‍⚕️ And perhaps her biggest achievement so far… she’s now reduced her NHS career to just TWO DAYS A WEEK! 🙌🎉

Little by little, she’s building a business that gives her more freedom, more choice and the chance to spend her working days doing something she genuinely loves.

And seeing the beautiful standard of her work today made me feel so incredibly proud.

We spent time looking through her portfolio, sharing more tips and ideas, celebrating her progress and chatting about all the exciting things still to come.

But here’s the part I love most… ❤️

Five years ago, Julie was the woman taking those first steps into a completely new career.

Today, she was the one encouraging Emma, sharing how much her own life has changed and how happy she is with the balance she’s created.

One woman’s success helping inspire another woman’s journey. 🥹❤️

And THAT is what I love most about being a trainer.

Yes, I teach women how to create beautiful Permanent Makeup.

But what really fills my heart is watching them grow in confidence, discover what they’re capable of and build businesses that change their lives and the lives of their families.

🎁Emma now gets to be at every school play and every assembly watching her sons. She never has to ask permission again or miss another moment.

Whilst Julie’s guilty pleasure is trips to the Maldives with her lovely husband.

To see women who once wondered “Could I really ever actually do this?” becoming successful, confident business owners who absolutely ARE doing it… well, there’s no better feeling! 🥰

Emma and Julie, I’m so incredibly proud of you both. ❤️

Keep growing, keep believing in yourselves and PLEASE keep sharing all those little wins with me.

Because I promise you, however many years I’ve been teaching, I NEVER get tired of hearing these stories! ❤️🥰👏

05/11/2026

👩‍🎓🧑‍🎨After Almost 20 Years Creating Permanent Brows, There’s ONE Thing I Refuse To Do. 💫🌟And It’s Why My Results Look So Different.

01/11/2026

Home sweet home 🏡 🔥…This will be me for the whole of winter… my favourite season of all.🔥🏡 🎄

Snuggled up by the fire, herbal teas, hot chocolates, cosy blankets, lamps and books. 📚 📕

Lots and lots of old books.

And I stay exactly in this spot and move only if I’m seeing lovely clients and helping them look and feel more beautiful, teaching my amazing students, nipping out for dog walks or a little Christmas shopping, consider me happily hibernating for the rest of the year. 😂

This one… Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by the amazing Susan Jeffers. 🫶😍

It’s one of my favourites that I return to again and again and again. Every time, something different speaks to me.🌟🙌👏

👩‍🎓🎁❤️ Same pages as the last time. A completely different version of me is re reading them.

Fear, self-belief and what helps us take that first step… this is one of my favourite areas of life long study.

🎁🔥❤️It’s the heart and soul of what I teach women every day in my clinic… alongside how to create incredible permanent make up results for their dream clients.

But there’s this very personal part of learning process…

It’s allowing yourself to be a beginner again, asking the questions, sometimes even more than once… and showing up even when you doubt yourself.

🧑‍🎨💃🏻The story behind this book makes its message even more special to me.

Susan herself described its success as a miracle.

After so many publishers rejected it, she almost gave up and put the manuscript away in her bedside drawer for years. 🥲🥲

But it wouldn’t leave her & she eventually returned to it, she believed it had something really worth sharing, and tried once again.

It went on to sell many many many millions of copies worldwide and help so many people. Ones just like me. 👌🔥❤️

Imagine if she’d just left it in that drawer.

I would have been so sad.

So, to the woman who keeps looking at permanent makeup courses, saving screenshots of beautiful brow transformations and wondering, “Could I really ever do that?”…

this is for you.❤️🙌

Maybe you’re dreaming of your own beautiful little treatment room.

A more creative career. A business with your name above the door. But then you start wondering whether you’re even talented enough, confident enough, or too late to start something new.

Please don’t confuse being completely new with being incapable of amazing things.

You’re not supposed to arrive here at your training already knowing how to do it.

🧑‍🎨🔥That’s why we learn in baby steps, it’s why it’s one to one, why we practise till we can’t get it wrong and why we ask for guidance as we go along.

🌟🧑‍🎨You can take the responsibility very seriously without expecting yourself to be an expert before your first day.

Showing up anyway might begin with something as small as sending that enquiry you’ve written and deleted three times already 🤷‍♀️🤣.

And whether your dream is becoming a permanent makeup artist, writing a book, sharing your poetry or putting your artwork out into the world, I’d put this book on your reading pile.

As a reminder that fear doesn’t have to have the final say.

I might be hibernating this winter, but I’m still making room for all the things that help me create. 💫😍I hope you make a little room for your own possibilities, too.

You truly deserve your dreams.

And you never know what could happen if you gave yourself the chance to do it anyway… scared. 🤎 ###

30/10/2026

Oh Italy🌴🇮🇹🌞It’s ALWAYS been this way that Paul has to drag me away from my work every single time we go on holiday! 😂❤️

Away from my permanent make up machine, my gorgeous clients 🧑‍🎨🥰, my incredible students👩‍🎓💃🏻 and the business I’ve spent 20+ years building.

I love what I do so much that switching off honestly doesn’t always come naturally to me.🧑‍🎨🤷‍♀️😂😂

But here I am, in beautiful Italy 🇮🇹 surrounded by possibly the most stylish people in the whole world, enjoying precious time with my 3 children, and little mentoring by the poolside (because I just can’t help myself and I just HAVE to know what’s going on) and the deepest feeling of relaxation and utter gratitude that I could possibly imagine. ❤️

I’ve also read three incredible books on this holiday, and each has taught me something quite profound so I will just have to share…

📖 Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: Trust your creativity. Stop trying to make EVERYTHING perfect. Stay curious, create and ENJOY the process.

📖 Sabri Suby, Sell Like Crazy: Build systems that SUPPORT the life you want to live, rather than building a life around your work.

📖 Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Show up & do the work, give it EVERYTHING you’ve got, leave it all on the field ❤️🧑‍🎨 that’s your only job.

And that last lesson has stayed with me.

🥰🌟🔥I’ve spent so much of my life believing that if I worked hard enough, planned perfectly enough and controlled enough, I could make everything happen.

And to an extent, that belief has served me incredibly well, all of my dreams came true.

But now I’m learning something completely new to me.

That I can be ambitious without ever being anxious. That I can give my absolute best without needing to control every result. That I can trust myself, trust the process and actually enjoy the beautiful life I’ve worked so hard to create.

The biggest lesson of all is that success isn’t just about what we build. It’s about having the freedom to sit back and actually enjoy it. ❤️

I’m bringing home three well-thumbed, dog-eared books, filled with scribbled notes in the margins, folded corners and lessons I'll carry home with me all my life, a head full of new ideas, a heart full of gratitude and a sense of peace I don’t think I’ve ever felt before.🔥❤️

As much as I’ve loved every minute here, I’m just too excited to go home.

Back to the place I love most, the people I love most, my lovely clients, my students and the job of service I still absolutely adore after all these years.

Maybe that’s what real success looks like.🙌

Thank you, Italy. You’ve been exactly exactly exactly what I needed. 🇮🇹❤️☕️

15/10/2026

🏆❤️🔥TWO NATIONAL AWARDS, TWO RADIO NEWS BULLETINS... BUT IT'S THE STORIES BEHIND THEM THAT REALLY MATTER!

Well, it's certainly been an exciting week here at The Permanent Makeup Training Academy! 🥰

Following our recent DOUBLE national award win, our story has been making the headlines!

🎙️ TWO different news bulletins broadcast throughout the day on V2 Radio.🔥🔥

📰 A FULL-PAGE feature in the Mid Sussex Times.👏🧑‍🩰

And while we're absolutely thrilled to see our little Sussex training academy receiving so much recognition, there's something we're even prouder of.

💃🏻❤️The women who've walked through our doors and gone on to do things they once thought were completely out of reach. 🎁🌟🧑‍🎨👩‍🎓

Over the years, Katy has trained almost 1,000 students, many of whom started with no experience in permanent makeup and have since gone on to build their own successful businesses.

🤷‍♀️💄👩‍🎓Women who've changed careers, created more freedom for their families, found their confidence and surprised themselves with what they're capable of.

One of those women is Nadine, who you might remember from Channel 5's Rich House, Poor House. 📺👌

Her story, from living on just £86 a week to running her own successful permanent makeup business, was even featured in one of the radio news bulletins.

And that's what makes this recognition so special.

🏆🔥One national award celebrates Katy's work as a permanent makeup artist.

🏆🌟The other celebrates the training academy and the opportunities we've helped create for other women.

We've put both radio bulletins together into this little video, along with some lovely memories, student moments and our recent newspaper feature.

Because sometimes all it takes is seeing what's possible for someone else to start believing it might be possible for you too. ❤️

A huge thank you to V2 Radio and the Mid Sussex Times for sharing some lovely positive news!🫶🤩

❤️🎙️ Radio news audio courtesy of V2 Radio

11/10/2026

😂 “CRAZY PMU CULT”

Natalia actually wrote that in her thank you card. 😂🙌❤️

And I thought to myself as we all went out for an ice cream🍦… she’s actually got a point you know.🤣

Maybe I am building a CULT…ure here.

Hang around with me long enough and I’ll probably brainwash you into believing you can build something far bigger for yourself than you have right now.

The dangerous bit of the cult?

…You’ll start proving me absolutely right. 💃🏻🔥😂

Natalia first saw me on Rich House, Poor House when she was just 14 and decided she would train with me one day.

👌🫶👏👏 She spent 2½ years saving for that dream once she became old enough to get a job in Asda.

And 8 months ago, at just 20 years old, she finally walked through my doors. ❤️

She didn’t really believe what could happen but she showed up anyway and decided to just trust the process and we sat down to make a plan.

2 week ago, just 8 months later she came back for her assessment day and amazingly a he’d already earned more in one 3-hour PMU day than she earns in a whole WEEK at Asda.

So we worked out how to do it again.

And again.

And again.

In fact, just 6 more regular PMU clients over the next 2 months could put her in a position to go full-time as a permanent makeup artist.

SIX! At 20 years old! 🥹💃🏻🔥🎁

And THIS is why I love mentoring my amazing students so much. 💃🏻❤️🌟👏👏

I’m not interested in teaching someone to micro-blade eyebrows and waving them goodbye. I don’t simply want to sell permanent makeup courses. I always aim to create exceptional permanent makeup career opportunities, for everybody that chooses to invest in training with me. 💕

I want them to see what they’re truly capable of building if they have all the right tools and mentorship.

Natalia finished her beautiful Thank You card with…

“You truly give the magic of belief for so many of your students, including myself.”

That got me right in the heart. ❤️

BUT THEN, JUST A WEEK OR SO LATER…

A voice note arrived on my phone…

Natalia was absolutely BUZZING.

She’d just had her first £550 DAY!!! 🎉

£450 in treatments and a £100 tip from a delighted client who’s already booked to come back!

“That is more than I make in a week at Asda.” And that was in just half a day.

And then she said something I loved…

“The more you push, the more you realise you can actually make so much more money in a day.”

😍🫶And there it was.

That beautiful moment when a young woman starts to realise that the dream she’s been saving for might actually become her everyday life.

She’s still working at Asda. Still learning. Still building her business.

She even admitted that halfway through a tricky lip treatment she was thinking, “I wish Katy was here! I wish Katy was here!” 😂❤️

🙌🌟But she kept going.

And now she’s sending me voice notes celebrating £550 days.

This is definitely 💯 my kind of CULT…ure.

Women believing in themselves. 💪

Showing each other what is possible.

Celebrating each other’s wins. 🎉

And realising that somebody else’s success is proof it can be done.

Natalia, I am SO incredibly proud of you. 🥹

And somewhere inside that young woman is still the 14-year-old girl watching me on television, thinking…

“One day, I’m going to train with her.”

Well, my friend…

LOOK AT YOU NOW. 💕 ❤️

And there’s something else that’s incredibly special to me about Natalia.

💰She’s already figured out what she can use some of the extra money she earns from doing permanent makeup.

She gives to food banks around Christmas, when so many families are struggling and she’s regularly donating to her favorite animal charities.

And I just thought… what an amazing young woman. ❤️

She’s working so hard to build a better future for herself, but she’s already thinking about how she can make life a little better for others too.

That’s the sort of success I absolutely love co-creating in our cult… ure. ###

Natalia thank you so much for our cupcakes. I was a bit sad to bite off your head & your certificate, felt strange but very yummy and much appreciated.😋🧁🤣🎁

08/10/2026

A lovely surprise to see our story featured in the local Sussex newspapers! 🏆❤️

After almost 20 years in permanent makeup, more than 12,000 procedures and nearly 1,000 students trained, Katy has been recognised nationally for both her artistry AND her training academy.

🏆 National 1st Place Permanent Makeup Artist 2026

🏆 National 1st Place Beauty Training Academy 2026

We're incredibly proud of both awards, but what makes them especially meaningful is knowing how many wonderful people have been part of this journey.

From the clients who have trusted Katy with their faces over the years, to complete beginners taking their first steps into permanent makeup, and former students now running successful businesses of their own.

Every one of you has played a part in this story, and we're so grateful. ❤️

A huge thank you to UK Hair Awards & GB Beauty Awards for recognising Katy and our academy, to Mid Sussex Times Middy for sharing our story, and to everyone who has supported us along the way. ❤️

Sussex permanent makeup artist wins two national awards after almost 20 years in the industry